Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Designing educational stuffed toy for your child

By Wendy Tsao

For years, parents are using stuffed toys as an educational tool to teach their children good manners, habits and deliver some educational message to their children. Stuffed toys stimulate the child perception and take him into an imaginary world and open his mind to react positively to any educational message.

Learning through playing is a well known physiological technique used by many parents. Educating children through exposing them to a joyful learning experience is engraved in the children mind forever. Making their favorite dolls and stuffed toys talk and invite the children to integrate into the play will deliver the educational message easily and unknowingly.

Playing is the child's main job and through playing in gets into contact with the world around and begins to accumulate memories and experience whether it is good or bad. Every while you find the child interested in a toy and plays with it for a while and then throw it away. This isn't because the child got bored but because he got all the experience he needs and he is ready to move on to explore more.

Success of parents in any learning through playing depends on the kinds of toys they use during the process, the story they are telling whether it is interesting to the child and child interaction to the play process. Stuffed toys are always a good choice to be used during the process as they are made of soft materials which makes it controllable during the play.

Using any stuffed toy can do magic in your child behavior while playing. Being a good boy like Mr. Bear or a princess like Princess Fiona is always a dream for many children who received the educational message from their parents.

Imagine the effect that a custom made stuffed toy made of your own child drawing can do to your child behavior. Every child in the world likes to draw. He uses his imagination to create a fantasy character or draw animal or a person. He always draws the same image over and over again. Imagine the effect of this imaginary friend of your child would have if it was personalized and participate in learning through playing process.

Your child will react positively to stuffed toys made of his own drawings. Even by just transforming his drawing into stuffed toy, you are giving your child an educational lesson that nothing is impossible and the sky is the limit.

Stuffed toys made of children drawing have special emotional influence of your child behavior. If you were able to create a learning experience using these stuffed toys, your child will unconsciously react positively to the message and you can really make a huge difference.

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